Fw: [pct-l] Organizing resupply boxes, variety

["Joanne Lennox" <goforth@cio.net>]

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> From: Joanne Lennox <goforth@cio.net>
> To: Nathan Martin <NCMartin@lbl.gov>
> Subject: Re: [pct-l] Organizing resupply boxes, variety
> Date: Thursday, March 04, 1999 5:53 AM
> 
> Here are some of my dinner menus:
> Spagetti- dried leathers
> Peanut Sause (I posted this) with couscous, cornmeal, barley or ramen
> mac and cheese
> lentils, usually curried
> Potaotes, green slasa and chicken
> curried chicken with sweet potatoes
> korma meatballs, a turkish thing I use dried meatballs, with fresnch cut
> beans
> chili - bean, meatball, and veggie combinations
> talmale pie, and dried corn, tomatoes, chili, pork , onions, lots of
black
> olives ( I like pork and
> 	realize that you might not want to use it, it seems to reconstitute
well,
> and I fry it in very
>              thin strips before drying, substiture chicken or turkey)
> Fish chowder - onions, potatoes, cornmeal,fish, tyme, some ham,
coffeemate
> and milk
> Borchet - onions, carrots, beets, cabbage, meatballs
> Liptons chicken noodle soup with aparagus and mashed potatoes
> White Cheddar cheese and Broccali (Trader Joes) soup mix with added
> potatoes, or other starch
> Cheese stuffed Ravioli, Squash stuffed Mezzauna, and Pesto stuffed
> Tortillini with Parmesan
>                       Cheese 
> Stove top stuffing with chicken and peas  
> Vegetable soup (Trader Joes), with added starch, probably will be
cornmeal
> Rissotto Primavera(by Pastarotti, from the Trader Joes) - the only rice
> dish, I dislike white rice
> Scalloped potatoes -Betty Crocker
> Potatoe Leek Soup( probably nile spice), with mashed potaoes, asparagus
and
> parmesan added
>       
> That is 19 different items, you can see that I often start with mix and
add
> another starch and a vegetable.  I don't like corn pasta ( it has a very
> short shelf life and usually tastes slightly rancid to me,) I like
cornmeal
> instead.
> 
> Hope to see you in April sometime, maybe the bash.  I am running  behind.
> ssorry I can't give you more ( 3 weeks _ March 27 fly to San Diego)
> 
> Goforth
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > From: Nathan Martin <NCMartin@lbl.gov>
> > To: goforth@cio.net
> > Subject: Re: [pct-l] Organizing resupply boxes, variety
> > Date: Thursday, March 04, 1999 11:48 AM
> > 
> > Hi Joanne,
> > I would definitely be interested in your planned meal menus. I'm also
> > in the midst of finalizing this stuff but am looking for more ideas.
> > Feel free to email me your meal choices if you get a chance. Thanks.
> > 
> > Nathan chai-walker Martin
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Joanne Lennox <goforth@cio.net>
> > To: pct-mailing list <PCT-L@backcountry.net>
> > Date: Thursday, March 04, 1999 11:27 AM
> > Subject: [pct-l] Organizing resupply boxes, variety
> > 
> > 
> > >After a lot of time with Craigs PCT planner.( Let's hear for Craig! 
> Three
> > >CHEERS.  Hurrah. Hurrah. Hurrah!!!!), I think that I have figured out
> how I
> > >am going to organize my resupply boxes.  Hope this helps somebody
else.
> > >
> > >I have 31 resupply places: 5 places of 3 days or less, 8 places of 4
> days,
> > >12 of 5 days, and 5 of 6 days or greater.  (I assumed that I would be
> > >eating in each place, so I added lunch items but not dinner - so for a
> > >resupply of 4.5 days I have lunch for 5 days and breakfast and dinner
> for
> > >4).
> > >
> > >My main concern is keeping enough variety .  I have at least 14
> different
> > >dinner menus, 6 breakfast, etc.  What I have decided to do is place
like
> > >items in resupply of 3 days or less, 4 days , and resupplyies of
longer
> > >than 6 days.  different items will be put in resupply boxes of 5 days
(
> > >approximately half of the days). For instance, I will put Cashews in
the
> > >3,4, and 6 day resupply boxes (my favorite), and variety of other nuts
> and
> > >salty snacks will go into the 5 day boxes but not cashews.  For the
most
> > >part this allows me to alternate items.  There are some pairs that are
> back
> > >to back, but I am hoping to rely more on store bought items in one of
> these
> > >pairs:
> > >
> > >    4 day pair Tuolumne and Sonora Pass
> > >
> > >    4 day pair Hyatt lake resort and Crater Lake
> > >
> > >    5 dfay pair Echo Lake Resort and Sierra City
> > >
> > >    5 day pair Skykomish and Stehekin
> > >
> > > Goforth
> > >
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